Asiolasma angka

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Asiolasma angka
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Family: Nemastomatidae
Genus: Asiolasma
Species:
A. angka
Binomial name
Asiolasma angka
(Schwendinger & Gruber, 1992)
Synonyms
Synonymy
  • Dendrolasma angka Schwendinger & Gruber, 1992
  • Cladolasma angka (Schwendinger & Gruber, 1992)

Asiolasma angka, is a species of harvestmen belonging to the family Nemastomatidae. It is found in Chiang Mai, Thailand. [1] It was initially described in the genus Dendrolasma before being transferred in genus Cladolasma , [2] then later redefined within Asiolasma when that genus was newly described. [3]

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Description

Asiolasma angka is a comparatively small species with distinctly globular body; anterior part of prosoma distinctly prolonged, eye mound and projecting hood markedly elevated, rear part of eye mound and hood forming approximately a right angle with prosoma, eyes situated close to anterior margin of prosoma (in lateral view); opisthosoma dorsally with groups of acute processes or smooth cones on areas II-IV. The male has the truncus penis straight, parallel-sided, slightly depressed, spicules on glans uniform and symmetrically arranged; male pedipalpal patella with marked proventral brush of small setae. [3]

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References

  1. Schwendinger, P.J.; Gruber, J. (1992). "A new Dendrolasma (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae) from Thailand" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 9 (2): 57–60. ISSN   0524-4994.
  2. Shear, W.A. (2010). "New species and records of ortholasmatine harvestmen from México, Honduras, and the western United States (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae, Ortholasmatinae)". ZooKeys. 52: 9–45. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.52.471 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088029 .
  3. 1 2 Martens, J. (2019). "An ancient radiation: Ortholasmatine harvestmen in Asia - a new genus, three new species and a revision of the known species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Nemastomatidae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 126 (1): 79–110. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2619524. ISSN   0035-418X.

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